{"id":8127,"date":"2016-07-26T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2016-08-07T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:45:13","slug":"zimbabwe-widow-loses-child-name-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-widow-loses-child-name-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Widow Loses Child Name Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text\">The High Court has blocked a Harare woman from registering her minor child born out of wedlock in the late father&#8217;s name without the relatives&#8217; consent and instead allowed her to register the child in her own family name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Ms Zvikomborero Paunganwa approached the High Court challenging the constitutionality of Section 12(2) (c) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 5:02).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">The law requires that if the alleged father of a child is deceased, his parents or near relatives should confirm paternity of the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201607260772.html\" target=\"_blank\">AllAfrica website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The High Court has blocked a Harare woman from registering her minor child born out of wedlock in the late father&#8217;s name without the relatives&#8217; consent and instead allowed her to register the child in her own family name. Ms Zvikomborero Paunganwa approached the High Court challenging the constitutionality of Section 12(2) (c) of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-southern-africa","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8664,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}